Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Rates per minute
Poster: Pierre Souchar
Post title: United for fair rates
We as translators can be a force.
We must not accept low rates.
Take your calculator and see how long it takes you to translate 20 minutes of program and compare it with the rate earned by an Uber Eats deliverer.
An Uber Eats deliverer earns 15 $/hour as an average...
How long would it take you to subtitle four Netflix episodes ? Two weeks ?
So, let's say 47 min per episode x 4 episodes x 3 $/min = 564 $ for 120 hours of work, at least... It's 4,76 $/hour.
The proposed rate is not even equivalent to the minimum wage in the USA, from which we would have to pay 30 % of taxes, plus investment in hardware, and Internet connection, electricity, insurance, telephone and bank fees, among others.
Just to give people arguments...
[Edited at 2020-09-24 20:20 GMT]
Topic: Rates per minute
Poster: Pierre Souchar
Post title: United for fair rates
We as translators can be a force.
We must not accept low rates.
Take your calculator and see how long it takes you to translate 20 minutes of program and compare it with the rate earned by an Uber Eats deliverer.
An Uber Eats deliverer earns 15 $/hour as an average...
How long would it take you to subtitle four Netflix episodes ? Two weeks ?
So, let's say 47 min per episode x 4 episodes x 3 $/min = 564 $ for 120 hours of work, at least... It's 4,76 $/hour.
The proposed rate is not even equivalent to the minimum wage in the USA, from which we would have to pay 30 % of taxes, plus investment in hardware, and Internet connection, electricity, insurance, telephone and bank fees, among others.
Just to give people arguments...
[Edited at 2020-09-24 20:20 GMT]